Nūbēs

The first book devoted to the artist Raphaël Lecoquierre, “Nūbēs” documents the eponymous series begun in 2010 following the discovery of photographs washed up on the shore of the North Sea. The works in this body of work are produced using a singular process that makes use of a vast collection of vernacular analogue photographs. The images of families, landscapes and other instruments of memory gleaned and accumulated by the artist are dissolved in order to extract their coloured substance. The pigments collected are incorporated into Venetian stucco and used as raw material for the creation of motifs which, freed from their figurative referents, transcend memories and representations to give rise to nebulous landscapes.